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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ari do as he drives the Minister and the man who got into the car with them?
(a) Sings to the radio.
(b) Calls the cops.
(c) Stares ahead in silence.
(d) Cries.

2. How does the Minister know the man in the car is not from the Red Cross?
(a) The man told him he is not from the Red Cross.
(b) His uniform is not a Red Cross uniform.
(c) The Red Cross no longer exists.
(d) He does not have a Red Cross I.D.

3. What begins to happen just as the Minister reaches his plane at the end of the story?
(a) It starts to rain.
(b) The airport floods.
(c) It starts to snow.
(d) The plane begin to take off before the Minister gets on it.

4. What does the Minister realize as a group of aids guide him down the tarmac?
(a) He forgot his suitcase.
(b) He did not say goodbye to Ari.
(c) He set the Marlboro Man free.
(d) He does not want to see his wife.

5. What does the Minister do when the Marlboro Man says, "You, too, are by brother" (12)?
(a) He ignores the man and says nothing.
(b) He waves to the man.
(c) He tells his aide to arrest him.
(d) He yells the same phrase back at the man.

6. What does the man tell the Minister is disappointing after the Minister says he knows the man will kill them?
(a) That the Minister relies on Ari to help him.
(b) That the Minister was not prepared for the storm.
(c) That the Minister does not recognize the man.
(d) That the Minister is running away.

7. Who is screaming the Minister's name as he walks down the tarmac with his aides at the end of the story?
(a) Ari.
(b) The Marlboro Man.
(c) The crowd.
(d) His wife.

8. What does the Minister say to the Marlboro Man when he tries to say the two are similar?
(a) The Minister says that the Man is far more noble than he is.
(b) He agrees with him.
(c) The Minister says that he should have been arrested with the man.
(d) He tells him he is insane.

9. What does the Marlboro Man say he helped build?
(a) The airport.
(b) The church.
(c) The Minister's house.
(d) The municipal building.

10. Where is the "decades-old failed public-works project" (7) that Ari drives past with the Minister and the man in the car?
(a) The reservoir.
(b) Downtown.
(c) The forest.
(d) The old mill.

11. What does the Minister recall he and the Prime Minister doing "to young thugs who could not even spell their own names" (10)?
(a) Tutoring them.
(b) Beating them up.
(c) Finding them jobs.
(d) Giving them guns.

12. How long ago does the Marlboro Man say he was given that nickname?
(a) 40 years ago.
(b) 3 years ago.
(c) 20 years ago.
(d) 10 years ago.

13. What does the Marlboro Man tell the Minister that the Prime Minister, whom he says took all the glory, really was?
(a) A sly fox.
(b) Just a pretty face.
(c) A schmuck.
(d) A conniving thug.

14. Where does the man who got into the car with the Minister tell him he wants to go?
(a) To church.
(b) To the airport.
(c) To a hotel.
(d) To a cafe.

15. How long has the Marlboro Man been in prison before he is able to escape?
(a) 15 years.
(b) 5 years.
(c) 30 years.
(d) 3 months.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Marlboro Man do when they approach a checkpoint near the airport?

2. What word does the Marlboro Man use to describe the Prime Minister?

3. What is the only thing the Prime Minister reads in the present?

4. What does the Minister tell the Marlboro Man will happen to him once they reach the airport?

5. How old is the Minister of Interior?

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